Knowing Your Own Mate Value: Sex-Specific Personality Effects on the Accuracy of Expected Mate Choices

Knowing one's mate value (mate-value accuracy) is an important element in reproductive success. We investigated within- and between-sex differences in this ability in a real-life speed-dating event. A total of 190 men and 192 women filled out a personality questionnaire and participated in spee...

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Veröffentlicht in:Psychological Science. - SAGE Publications. - 22(2011), 8, Seite 984-989
1. Verfasser: Back, Mitja D. (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Penke, Lars, Schmukle, Stefan C., Asendorpf, Jens B.
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2011
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Psychological Science
Schlagworte:Social sciences Behavioral sciences Biological sciences